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option vs meta
Authored by: pmccann on Oct 14, '02 11:42:49AM

The submitter at some stage has ticked the "option key as meta" box in the menu:

Terminal/Window Settings/Emulation

This is very handy if you're an emacs person (I'm not) or spend a lot of term in a shell (I do). The former is pretty obvious (lots of Esc-x type commands in emacs). The latter is useful for things like moving back a word on the command line: Esc-b (or option+b with the box ticked). Moving forward a word at a time is achieved with option-f.



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